A 375 MHz 1 /spl mu/m CMOS 8-bit multiplier

Abstract

A signed 8-bit pipelined multiplier has been implemented in a standard 1.0 /spl mu/m CMOS process. It was successfully tested up to 375 MHz. This performance was achieved using the true single-phase clocking technique, fine-grain pipelining, and merging the combinational logic into the pipeline registers.